MORE B.T.C. APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED
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THE Minister of Transport announces that Capt. Sir Ian Bolton, Bart., 0.B.E , has become a member, on a part-tirnbasis, of the British Transport Commission He is a well-known chartered accountant and a director of the L.M.S.R. and of various other concerns.
Mr. Barnes has also invited a number of well-known men to become members of the Railway and London transport Executives at an early date, and the following have agreed to join the London Transport Executive:—Mr. John Cliff, Mr. A. H. Grainger, Mr. L. C. Hawkins, Mr. A. B. B. Valentine, Sir Richard Burbidge, Bart., C.B.E., Sir Edward Hardy, and Mr. T. E. Williams.
Mr. Cliff was formerly assistant general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union. Since then he has been a member of the L.P.T.B. Mr. Grainger is the solicitor to the Board; Mr. Hawkins, comptroller; Mr. Valentine, operating manager (railways); Sir Richard I3urbidge, chairman and man'aging director of Harrods, Ltd.; Sir Edward Hardy, a member of the Board since August, 1946; and Mr. Williams, a director of the Co-operative Wholesale Society.
The British Transport Commission itself has appointed as its comptroller Mr. R. H. Wilson, a Scottish chartered accountant and a member of the Royal . Commission on the Press. He will have complete responsibility to the Commission for its financial affairs.
I.A.E.-LMECH.E. STAFF CHANGES
THE last number of the I.A.E. Journal is for the period August-September, 1947. After this month it will cease to be a separate publication, and its news and notices will then appear in the Automobile Division of the Journal of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
In a valedictory, Mr. F. G. Woollard, M.B.E., M.I.Mech.E., refers to certain staff changes. Mr. B. G. Robbins, M.Sc.(Eng.), A.C.G.I., former secretary to the I.A.E., becomes an assistant secretary to the .ecretary of the Mechanicals, Dr. H. L. Guy He has also been A24 appointed education officer. Mr. E. B. Haggerty will, amongst other matters, handle the general planning of centre programmes as well as editorial matter for the Automobile Division.
Mr. H. Swain, M.B.E., A.M.I.Mech.E., has left to become secretary of the Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers. Other members of the I.A.E. staff have been absorbed into the Mechanicals. The new chairman of the Automobile Division is to be Captain G. T. Smith-Clarke.
OVER-WIDTH MACKS MAY CLEAR SNOW
THE use on roads of Mack Type N.M. heavy artillery tractors for the purpose of clearing snow is authorized by the Motor Vehicles (Authorization of Special Types) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order, 1,947, S.R.0.1947, No. 1961. The use of these ex-Service machines for any civilian purposes other than snow clearance is not permissible if the legal width exceeds 7 ft. 6 ins.
US. HIGHWAY PLANS
PA.A NEW comprehensive system of express highways connecting all sections of the U.S. is to be built at a cost of 3,000,000,000 dollars.
The system will give direct northsouth, east-west and diagonal access from any part of the country to every other part. It will serve all but 17 of the 199 cities of over 50,000 population. NO " RISE " FOR VEHICLE BUILDERS
rE National Arbitration Tribunal ims rejected a claim for increases in wages for workers in the vehicle. building industry.
Lord Terrington presided over the Tribunal, and other members with him were Sir Francis Floud, Mr. William Gorman, K.C., Mr. Luke Fawcett, 0.B.E., and Mr. F. C. Fairholme, J.P.
For the Unions, the point was stressed that ratss in excess of the minima laid down in the agreements were paid in individual establishments, but workers in municipal and other non-federated establishments were precluded from receiving higher rates. It was submitted that the claim was justified in view of the industry's prosperous position and the need for greater output.
On behalf of the employers' joint board, it was contended that an advance in minimum rates could not be withheld from workers in receipt of higher rates. The increases already granted, it was submitted, were the maximum justified in view of the rates paid in other comparable industries, the present state of the country, and the Government's desire to prevent inflation.
G.W.R. TOHAVE NEW FLEET
PLANS have been made by the Great Western Railway Co. to purchase 800 road vehicles and over 400 trailers to replace " expired " vehicles to be withdrawn by the end of 1948. The total cost is expected to be in the region of £700,000 and includes the provision of additional trailers involved in the substitution of articulated vehicles for rigid units.
Capacities provided for range from the 10-cwt. van to the 25-ton tractor. Within these limits, present proposals will enable the company progressively to meet a large variety of cartage demands.
PARIS SHOW POSTPONED
POSTPONED from October 2-16, the Paris Show, it is learned, will now open on October 23 and close on November 6.